On plain muscle

Plain Polynomial Arithmetic on GPU

As for serial code on CPUs, parallel code on GPUs for dense polynomial arithmetic relies on a combination of asymptotically fast and plain algorithms. Those are employed for data of large and small size, respectively. Parallelizing both types of algorithms is required in order to achieve peak performances. In this paper, we show that the plain dense polynomial multiplication can be efficiently ...

Physician-patient encounters "on a darkling plain.

On Plain and Hereditary History-Preserving Bisimulation

We investigate the difference between two well-known notions of independence bisimilarity, history-preserving bisimulation and hereditary history-preserving bisimulation. We characterise the difference between the two bisimulations in trace-theoretical terms, advocating the view that the first is (just) a bisimulation for causality, while the second is a bisimulation for concurrency. We explore...

Plain varieties

Algebraic varieties that are locally isomorphic to open subsets of affine space will be called plain. Plain varieties are smooth and rational. The converse is true for curves and surfaces, and is unknown in general. It is shown that plain varieties are stable under blowup in smooth centers.

Who Are the Plain Anabaptists? What Are the Plain Anabaptists?

I define the plain Anabaptists by answering two essential questions: “Who are the plain Anabaptists” and “What are the plain Anabaptists?” In asking “Who are the plain Anabaptists?” I investigate several dimensions of identity. First, I trace the history of seven religious traditions within Anabaptism: the Swiss Brethren/Mennonites, the Low German/Russian Mennonites, the Hutterites, the Amish, ...